August 19, 1906 
THE QARDEN1NQ WORLD, 
657 
ROSES 
THE WAY 
TO GROW THEM. 
Anyone with a little care and patience can 
grow Boses. I will endeavour to give a little 
account of my success in the culture of the 
queen of flowers. 
Three years ago I had never done any gar¬ 
dening, and now I have a glorious show of 
Roses. My Rose garden has been practically 
made since last summer, when I trenched the 
ground two spits deep, thoroughly incor¬ 
porating plenty of good rotten manure. This 
was all done by the end of September, which 
allowed plenty of time for the ground to settle 
down before planting time in November. 
About the second week in November I went 
to a local nursery and purchased some fine, 
strong-looking plants, which I at once trans¬ 
ferred to my garden, making holes from about 
18 in. to 2 ft. across to allow plenty of room to 
There is always plenty of work for the Rose.* 
grower during May and June. With the- 
maggot, caterpillar, and green fly, it takes 
up a great deal of time and patience to combat 
these pests. 
The only way to keep the maggot and cater¬ 
pillar in check is to hand-pick the bushes 
every morning. They are easily detected by 
examining the curled leaves ; do not spare 
one of them, but squeeze every leaf so curled 
between the thumb and finger. If this is 
done, there will be no cause, to bemoan the 
loss of all the best buds, for, as sure as a 
morning is passed without examining the 
trees, these ravenous pests will find their way 
into the very centres of the best buds. 
For green fly there is nothing better than a 
mixture of soft soap and quassia chips, well 
The Hollies Nurseries, Bloxham. 
Being attracted by the pleasing appearance 
of a picture on a postcard, we asked Mr. 
Ernest Townsend, The Hollies Nurseries, 
Bloxham, Oxon, to lend us the block. Owing 
to tin* number of subjects to be got on the 
small space of a postcard, it is impossible to 
go into details with regard to the picture. We 
may say, however, that the cultures repre¬ 
sented in this Oxfordshire nursery include 
fruit trees, Roses, Dahlias, Carnations, 
Chrysanthemums, and herbaceous perennials. 
It has, in fact, a general stock of nursery sub¬ 
jects to meet the requirements of the locality, 
while, of course, the fruit trees and Roses can 
be sent to any part of the British Isles. We 
may say that Carnations are a special feature 
of the nursery, seeing that Mr. Townsend 
raises a large number of seedlings every year, 
and some of his selections are both choice and 
pretty. 
spread out the roots. Before planting them, 
however, I thoroughly overhauled the roots, 
and cut off with a sharp knife any tom or 
otherwise damaged parts. I then planted 
them, putting them in so that the union be¬ 
tween the Rose and the stock was about 2 in. 
below the surface, covering the roots with 
some fine mould, carefully working it down 
between the roots, and then filling the hole 
up and well treading it down. 
After the trees were all planted, there was 
not much to do till plaining time in March 
and April, beginning with the H.P.’s and 
finishing up with the more tender Teas. 
I started pruning the H.P.’s during the last 
week in March, and finished up with the Teas 
the third week in April, cutting them all hard 
back the first season to encourage strong 
growth for future years' blossoms. The 
strong growing sorts were cut back to within 
4 in. or 5 in. from the base, and the weaker 
ones to within 2 in or 3 in. from the base. 
The result is a good show of flowers and plenty 
of new wood for next year’s blossoms. 
syringing the trees every evening till they 
are eradicated, not forgetting to syringe again 
until clean water about two hours afterwards. 
A mulching of manure will be found very 
beneficial to the trees during the early sum¬ 
mer, for, besides checking excessive evapora¬ 
tion, it acts as a stimulant to the plants. 
I herewith append a small list of Roses that 
have done well with the above treatment: — 
H.P.’s: Frau Karl Druschki, Mrs. R. G. 
Sh arm an Crawford, General Jacqueminot, 
Prince Camille de Rohan, Chas. Lefebvre, and 
Mrs. John Laing. H.T.’s: La France, Cap¬ 
tain Christy, Mrs. IV. J. Grant, Caroline Tes- 
tout, Mme. Abel Chatenay, and Liberty. 
Teas: Safrano, Marie Van Houte, Dr. Grill, 
Maman Cochet, White Maman Cocliet, and 
Francisca Kruger. 
Anyone who wants a hedge of Roses should 
try Gruss an Teplitz and Gustave Regis alter¬ 
nately, and they will be pleased with the 
result. Ernest A. Turner. 
22, Puller Road, Barnet. 
A Noble Japanese Veronica. 
(Veronica subsessilis.) 
Some years ago a very handsome her¬ 
baceous Veronica was introduced to Kew and 
grown for a number of years under the name 
of V. longifolia subsessilis. Its distinctness, 
however, has earned it a name for itself, foi 
it is certainlv not very like the European 
V. longifolia ‘ in its more ordinary forms. 
The leaves are very large, heart-shaped at 
the base, and almost without stalks, which 
latter fact accounts for the specific name. 
The flowers are produced in a large terminal 
spike, with a few shorter ones from the axils 
of the upper leaves of the stems. The 
flowers individually are of large size, and, 
indeed, the racemes are very effective, while 
they are produced on stems that seldom, if 
ever, exceed 2 ft. in height. It is. theie- 
fore,’ a very worthy subject for the herbaceous 
border, or for the narrow flower borders in 
villa gardens," where tall subjects would be 
inadmissible. 
